Research Catalog

Title

Traces behind the Esmeraldas shore : prehistory of the Santiago-Cayapas Region, Ecuador / Warren R. DeBoer.

Author

DeBoer, Warren R.

Publication

Tuscalooa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c1996.

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Description

xvii, 234 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Survey along the lower Cayapas and Santiago rivers located ca. 200 habitation sites. Ceramic distinctions define seven phases, partly sequential and partly regional; 25 C14 dates extend from ca. 400 BC to AD 1400. Settlements become smaller, more dispersed, and culturally isolated after ca. AD 400"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Indians of South America > Esmeraldas (Province) > Antiquities
• Indians of South America > Material culture > Esmeraldas (Province)
• Cayapo Indians > Esmeraldas (Province) > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Esmeraldas (Province)
• Cayapa Indians > Antiquities
• Esmeraldas (Ecuador : Province) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-229) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Backward -- 2. Coast, River, and Forest -- 3. Sketching the Sequence -- 4. Vagrant Vestiges: Valdivia and the Mafa Phase -- 5. La Tolita's Hinterland: The Selva Alegre Phase -- 6. From Patas to Pedestals: The Guadual Phase -- 7. La Tolita's Aftermath: Herradura, Las Cruces, and Mysterious Mina -- 8. Back to Barbarism: The Tumbaviro Phase -- 9. The Coming of the Chachi -- 10. Local Linkages and Global Extensions -- Appendix 1. Textiles -- Appendix 2. Phytoliths.

ISBN

0817307923 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95008371^

OCLC

• 32240414
• SCSB-11270385

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library